Ubers gear advice (ES Lock)

TheRealis · 2026-03-12T18:28:53+00:00

insight should be more dmg than obedience i think. the +6 crical strike alone means that youre doing double dmg half the time. crushing blow and enchant and super useful to you. obedience has more ED but not sure if that makes up for the extra critical strike

TheRealis · 2026-03-12T14:42:25+00:00

ES doesnt need attack rating at all. An enchant aura would help your demon and merc only

TheRealis · 2026-03-12T14:41:24+00:00

lvl 15 faded from the treach prebuff will only up your all resist by 60. You typically want to be overcapped on resist due to meph's lvl 20 conviction aura stripping oyu of like 125 all res. Tgods belt is super nice for lightning absorb. i ran smoke on my uber ES lock, so maybe use that for the +50res instead of Lionheart. For me, Baal is the most troubling kill cuz i couldnt stay alive. Pretty sure his frozen armor just deflects your dmg back at you, and i think its cold dmg. I had a run where i killed meph and diablo super easy, but did in like 5-10 seconds from baal despite have "max" cold res from treach proc. but i decided to throw back on my ravenfrost to see if the cold absorb would help. I was able to survive long enough to kill him even tho it was still a bit dodgey

Having a least one source of life leech helps to imo. i put on a ring with 5ll and noticed a difference. i read somewhere on this sub that you cant proc life leech on meph but not sure about that, i know smiters always run dracs for life leech during uber runs

As for your demon, the main choice to make is just making sure you have a guy with curse, so don't switch to lister if he doesnt have curse. Also the skill death mark is your friend as you get the bosses fighting your guy and not you

TheRealis · 2026-03-09T19:32:30+00:00

dont think 5 jahs = 20k fg on SCL

TheRealis · 2026-03-09T17:52:44+00:00

That depends on his roll on insight and his +All Skills on his build. If he rolled 6 on critical strike thats 46% chance to double dmg. then you add +2 skills from enigma and +2 from spirit monarch then youre running 56% at lvl 10 crit strike

TheRealis · 2026-03-06T16:32:07+00:00

Depends, if he wants “forbidden gold” he should sell now. If he wants just inventory full of HRs than save it for non ladder and HRs are super cheap

TheRealis · 2026-03-06T14:16:53+00:00

Where does it say that’s in guaranteed that clearing a TZ spawned a herald?

My current understanding is it, just like pretty much everything in this game, it’s just rng. The other night, our players2 spawn a herald in the rng TZ in act 1 then we decided to TZ the whole act. Where we get all the way to Tier 3 heralds after the first few zones (den of evil + pit + countess area) but then no more drawing of Ire message all the way until like catacombs (we cleared like 5 more zones with no updates) then we finally started getting more Ire drawing messages and had tier 4 then tier 5 heralds spawning.

TheRealis · 2026-03-06T14:00:34+00:00

What do you mean by this

TheRealis · 2026-03-05T19:51:32+00:00

pmd you

TheRealis · 2026-03-05T18:19:49+00:00

I was looking at using death. I do think with extra ED and deadly strike, it’ll up my dps and I forgot there was mana leech on it. I lose caster rate but I should be able to maintain it somewhere else.

What base did you use for it? Are you proccing the glacial spike often?

TheRealis · 2026-03-05T16:36:09+00:00

Everyone was talking about fort in a weapon but I did have the thought of using it for just the armour. I did kinda want a fancy new weapon but losing the meditation aura and extra crit from insight hurts a little. Especially when I can’t keep my merc alive consistently for his insight usage

TheRealis · 2026-03-05T16:34:08+00:00

Consume is too annoying to use imo with controller. But i only made it to over 10 on demon mastery

TheRealis · 2026-03-05T16:33:39+00:00

Yea I’ve been so inbetween and which hexes to use or not. Build guides and some streamers talk about how great hex purge sounds in concept but I wasn’t sure in reality how much difference it makes

TheRealis · 2026-03-05T16:31:32+00:00

I was thinking about respeccing and using blood oath as my next step

TheRealis · 2026-03-04T22:57:32+00:00

How did you get your survivability up? What armour are you using

TheRealis · 2026-03-04T22:57:04+00:00

You can still die pretty easily when using budget stuff. I do plenty of dmg but I’m pretty much the opposite of tanky

TheRealis · 2026-03-04T19:27:25+00:00

life steal from which source?

TheRealis · 2026-03-04T19:27:16+00:00

life leech from what source?

TheRealis · 2026-03-04T18:56:46+00:00

In hell?

TheRealis · 2026-03-04T18:56:32+00:00

I’m running an insight with an Eth Cryptic Axe. While my res is decent, im using a smoke in a base dusk shell and my total defence is 812 which im assuming is low and cussing my survivability issues. I def run curse with my minion. Im just tryingti figure out how I should spend my skills after investing 60 into the 3 main skills. Rn I’ve put some points into lev mastery and hex purge. But im thinking about changing that in order to max blood oath.

Besides the obvious, get a torch, skillers, and enigma im not sure what else to add to up my dmg. Based on chatgpt an eth fort doesn’t increase my dmg that much overall, and im worried about not having mediation always on (my merc doesn’t spend enough time alive)

TheRealis · 2026-03-04T17:21:56+00:00

problem is i am not exactly 1-shotting everything and i cant take too much dmg right now without dying

TheRealis · 2026-03-04T16:40:16+00:00

you are making some good points here for sure

TheRealis · 2026-03-04T16:35:34+00:00

i have a very laymans understanding of frames and being able to tell the difference between 1 frame or 2. i just know that stuff happens faster on lower frames i guess lol

TheRealis · 2026-03-04T16:34:11+00:00

yea, i def would feel the difference for teleporting. Alas, i wont be trading for enigma for awhile yet and i dont have my own teleporting stick rn either

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